The Big High-Resolution Download Rip-off
Has anybody a comment on how come nobody noticed, by listening (it was
found, apparently accidentally, by someone who was looking at the frequency
distribution of some of the files he'd downloaded), that HDTracks and other
web-based music selling services were (inadvertently?) selling up-sampled
16-bit/44.1 KHz material as "hi-rez" *downloads and charging $20-$30 an album
for them? Could it be that there is no AUDIBLE difference between
16-bit/44.KHz material and so called hi-rez as was found by Meyer and Moran
in their notorius ABX study of DSD, and that's why the fraud supposedly went
unnoticed even by the people selling the music files?
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